Chapter 1119: Chapter 1104: Dividing the Spoils
“Leave!”
“Only by leaving this cage-like sky will our Martial Arts be reborn! Only then can we reconnect with and comprehend the Heavenly Dao, and walk further on this path of Martial Arts!” Jinghai said resolutely.
“Leave?” Ye Zhen murmured in shock.
“Exactly, Fourth Brother, we must leave. This isn’t a decision made lightly; it’s the only conclusion we’ve arrived at after centuries of arduous exploration….”
Then, the Great Saint of Jinghai, the Great Sage of the Overturning Sea, and the Sea-Breaking Great Saint took turns explaining to Ye Zhen the results of their explorations over the past centuries to confirm the correctness of their conclusion. This explanation took nearly two hours.
According to the Great Saint of Jinghai, the legacy of human Martial Artists relies mainly on texts, as well as verbal transmission from generation to generation.
This method of inheritance is excellent. The best and finest elements are often passed down, while much of the dross is discarded during the process. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that much essence and even historical elements of the race are lost during the transmission process.
But it’s different for the Demon Race. The bloodline of the Demon Race contains the most ancient memories of their legacy. Once the bloodline is activated or the Cultivation level is reached, one can acquire it instantly.
This bloodline inheritance preserves the oldest legacies unless a certain Grand Demon reaches the level of an Ancestor Beast to use the Great Divine Power to modify this ancient legacy.
In contrast to the human warriors, events from a thousand years ago are quite unclear, let alone those from ten thousand years ago. However, the inheritance of the Demon Race is very clear.
In the legacy of the Great Saint of Jinghai and others, their ancestors lived in a place that was not called the True Profound Continent but rather the Primordial World, ten thousand years ago.
Although the Primordial World was dominated by humans, the Demon Clan and the Demon Race each occupied a part of the world, nearly dividing it into three parts, unlike the current True Profound Continent, where humans dominate everything.
In the Outer Domain Dead Sea, it’s relatively better, but on land, the Demon Race is nowhere to be seen.
In their memories, the Primordial World was boundless; vast oceans and land stretched infinitely.
In their inherited memories, among their ancestors, there were many who reached the Divine Communication Realm. One could communicate divinely after entering the Dao.
Even those at the Divine Communication Realm couldn’t reach the continent’s end even after flying non-stop for a hundred years.
Moreover, the places their ancestors lived, as remembered by their legacy, differed from the current True Profound Continent in thousands of ways.
Among these, the Great Saint of Jinghai mentioned to Ye Zhen a force that surprised him — the Devil God Palace.
The Sky Wing Three Saints had communicated with the ancestors of the Devil God Palace. According to them, the ancestor of the Devil God Palace was merely a snake demon with one percent Flying Snake Bloodline.
Yet even one percent of the Flying Snake Bloodline was ten to a hundred times more noble than the bloodline of the Sky Wing Three Saints. Under normal circumstances, the inherited memories of the Devil God Palace’s ancestor should be far more ancient and extensive than the three of them.
Therefore, the three of them went to the Devil God Palace to exchange ideas with their ancestor.
After their exchange, not only were they even more certain of this inference, but they also obtained some clues on how to leave this continent.
The ancestor of the Devil God Palace knew of two ways to leave this continent.
Firstly, according to them, the Primordial World was extremely vast. Even within a single power’s domain, communications or migrations could take several years.
Thus, certain powerful ancient formation experts created large Teleportation Formations, solidified in various places, for the migration of True Spirits. These Teleportation Formations were known as the Ancient Teleportation Formations.
As long as there were enough Spirit Crystals, moving tens of thousands at once was no problem.
Based on these Ancient Teleportation Formations, formation masters from various sides developed Teleportation Formations of various scales. Unfortunately, among the Teleportation Formations inherited on the True Profound Continent, only movable mini Teleportation Formations exist.
These Teleportation Formations can only teleport limited-sized objects within a certain distance. As for small, medium, large, or the large-scale ancient Teleportation Formations, none exist.
However, in the inherited memories of the Devil God Palace’s ancestor with the Flying Snake Bloodline, it was known that there was an Ancient Teleportation Formation on the True Profound Continent that had been solidified in various places by the ancient experts.
But the True Profound Continent has undergone significant geomorphic changes for unknown reasons, so although it’s known to exist, its exact location is unknown.
Compared to the first method, the second way to leave this continent seemed even more elusive.
It’s said that some ancient treasures inherited from ancient times possess the ability to break through the void to find the source. If there’s a chance encounter, one might leverage it to leave the True Profound Continent and find the so-called Primordial World.
The second method was naturally not considered by the Sky Wing Three Saints, so they began to traverse thousands of mountains and rivers to search for the Ancient Teleportation Formation on the True Profound Continent.
Unfortunately, over a century, although they traversed every corner of the True Profound Continent, including the seafloor, they didn’t find any Ancient Teleportation Formation.
Instead of the Ancient Teleportation Formation, they found a ruined Ancient Relic Mansion, said to be the heritage mansion of a Human Clan Priest.
In this mansion, they found some clues.
The Ancient Teleportation Formation on the True Profound Continent was not a public fixture accessible to everyone like the ones in the Primordial World but was a strategic Teleportation Formation secretly constructed by the Human Clan.
The Human Clan Secret Technique is required to locate and access it.
The Sky Wing Three Saints naturally didn’t know the Human Clan Secret Technique, but through various inquiries and multiple exchanges with the ancestor of the Devil God Palace, they found a method to substitute the Human Clan Secret Technique.
It was blood sacrifice.
Ye Zhen happened to stumble upon that sacrificial ritual, which was actually their second attempt. The first sacrificial ritual took place twelve years ago, but for some unknown reason, it failed.
This led to the second sacrificial ritual.
However, the first sacrificial ritual had already attracted the attention of various forces on the Outer Domain Dead Sea, leading to a flurry of rumors.
The most circulated rumor was that the Sky Wing Three Saints had discovered an ancient legacy and intended to unlock it.
This planted the seeds of disaster for the second sacrificial ritual, resulting in the scene where Ye Zhen encountered various Dao Entrance Realm experts rushing to disrupt and seize the fruits of their labor.
“Big Brother, are you saying that the ancient strange space secret realm I entered is what you refer to as the ancient teleportation formation?” After hearing so much, Ye Zhen finally understood a bit.
“That’s right!” The three Jinghai brothers nodded in unison.
Ye Zhen pondered for a while. Previously, he hadn’t thought about it, but now, after hearing the Great Saint of Jinghai’s explanation, it seemed likely that the mysterious patterns engraved on the vast expanse of land behind the spiritual power barrier within that ancient strange space secret realm were indeed the ancient teleportation formation.
But what Ye Zhen couldn’t comprehend was why there were tens of thousands of corpses of various races in the passage leading to the ancient teleportation formation?
This was something Ye Zhen couldn’t figure out.
“Originally, when we saw the altar destroyed, we thought all hope was lost, but we didn’t expect Fourth Brother to emerge alive!” the Sea-Breaking Great Saint said.
“Big Brother, in that case, let me give you the location of the exit of the ancient strange space, which is also another entrance!” Ye Zhen said after a moment of contemplation.
Previously, Ye Zhen had been holding onto this location as leverage over the Sky Wing Three Saints, but he didn’t anticipate that the Sky Wing Three Saints treated him genuinely like a brother, making the four of them true brothers in spirit.
Under such circumstances, holding onto this crucial point became meaningless.
Unexpectedly, the three Great Saints of Jinghai shook their heads vigorously, like rattles, and unanimously refused.
“Fourth Brother, it’s better for you to keep this location. If you hand it over to us, I’m afraid the three of us won’t be able to resist going to investigate or even entering it, and by then, it would be disastrous,” the Great Saint of Jinghai said with a steely expression. “From now on, we must fully prepare for this matter, acquire the massive amount of spirit crystals needed to activate the ancient teleportation formation, and start looking for ways to deal with that Innate Bone-attached Phosphorus Fire Spirit.”
Moreover, if we are to leave, we must also consider the bloodline descendants on Heavenly Wing Island and make various preparations.
Once everything is ready, Fourth Brother will lead us into that ancient strange space secret realm to see if we can find the true path to seeking truth.”
Hearing this, Ye Zhen laughed bitterly, “No, Big Brother, I mean, let me first hand over this location to you!
You know, I’ve now become a mortal enemy of the Stars Tower, and because of the Black Dragon Legacy, the Dragon Alliance also wishes to kill me quickly. If anything happens to me, wouldn’t the hundreds of years of painstaking pursuit by the three of you be in vain?”
The Sea-Breaking Great Saint waved his hand boldly, “Fourth Brother, feel free to stay on Heavenly Wing Island to cultivate. In this situation, no matter how many people the Dragon Alliance and Stars Tower send, we’ll destroy them all.”
“No, Second Brother, I won’t be able to stay on Heavenly Wing Island for long. I plan, at most, three days, and after three days, I’ll leave Heavenly Wing Island,” Ye Zhen said.
“Why would Fourth Brother leave Heavenly Wing Island?
Fourth Brother, you’re currently at the seventh stage late stage of the Vein Forging Realm cultivation, and with a Grand Treasure Mansion Opening Pill in hand, breaking through to the Establishment Realm within a year is no problem. This is a time for exponential progress in cultivation, so why not seize the opportunity to deepen your cultivation and enhance your strength instead of leaving?” the Sea-Breaking Great Saint asked.
After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhen spoke, “Three brothers, you saw the incident where the Tower Chief Ou Tu of the Stars Tower threatened me with the lives of millions on the island and even the lives of the few brothers and their bloodline descendants to force me down, right?”
“Indeed, I never expected that Ou Tu would resort to such unscrupulous methods!” the Sea-Breaking Great Saint said with anger.
“That’s what worries me. I hail from the Black Dragon Domain, with family, brothers, and sect elders, even though they are also martial artists.
But the Black Dragon Domain is rather impoverished, with scarce spiritual power, and all their cultivation levels are quite ordinary. The Stars Tower, with its intelligence capabilities, has likely discovered everything about me, and they resort to all kinds of tactics without scruples. I’m worried that if they ever……”
Speaking up to that point, a deep worry appeared in Ye Zhen’s eyes. He had only recently realized this suddenly over the past two days.
Moreover, the Palace Master of Green Sun Palace, Chuh Yang, had already warned him about potential schemes surrounding Ye Zhen and the Black Dragon Domain, which only exacerbated his concerns.
Upon hearing this, the three Jinghai brothers also took a deep breath, “Would the Stars Tower dare to do such a thing? In terms of relatives and loved ones, the Stars Tower has a thousand times more than you brothers, aren’t they afraid of our crazed retaliation?”
“It’s the possibility, however small, that troubles me! Moreover, if the Stars Tower really wants to carry out such actions, would they leave any evidence?” the Great Saint of Jinghai stated.
“Absolutely, this is something I can’t gamble with. If the Stars Tower truly intends to act, relying on my senior sister alone would not be enough, so I must make a trip back to the Black Dragon Domain,” Ye Zhen resolutely declared. “With all the land laid before me, there’s no assurance that no mishap will occur, so regarding the location of this ancient strange space secret realm, I still……”
“Fourth Brother, refrain from speaking!” the Great Saint of Jinghai suddenly interrupted Ye Zhen’s words, “Fourth Brother, remember, you embody the hope for the martial path of your three brothers, so under any circumstances, you must come back alive.
If, if you truly suffer misfortune, your three brothers would spare no effort to annihilate the Stars Tower and Dragon Alliance in revenge for you!”
“Big Brother…”
Ye Zhen wanted to say more, but the Great Saint of Jinghai intervened, “Fourth Brother, time is of the essence, don’t waste any words, quickly prepare, and whatever you need to take back, be it cultivation technique manuals, formation diagrams, spirit crystals, pills, heavenly materials, and earthly treasures, just say the word.”
Ye Zhen wanted to say more, but seeing the resolute expressions of his three brothers, he could only nod in agreement.
Indeed, he truly had many, many things to accomplish in these three days!